42 images Created 7 May 2014
As garotas do Iranduba futebòl clube do Amazônia
Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas and one of the cities where it will be played the FIFA World Cup 2014, is very far from the images that usually Brazil evokes. Located on the banks of the Rio Bravo at the confluence with the Rio Solimoes that gives life to the Amazon river, is a metropolitan outpost in the middle of the Amazon jungle. From here, you move especially on boats that run through rivers and canals.
The passion for football, however, is a fever even in the middle of the Amazon, as shown by a football women team of the Esporte Clube do Iranduba de Amazonia.
From birth in 2011, under the expert guidance of Olavo Dantas Ferreira that is something more than a coach, the team won three times the Campeonato Amazonense, and was representing the state in the female Copa do Brasil ranking among the top ten national teams. The resources are scarce, however, and despite the results the club complains the lack of support by the institutions, with the consequent risk of survival of the club. The trips from Manaus mean hours and often days to reach other places of this enormous state and for a club competing in the amateur category is not an easy life. The coach and the club are making great efforts as volunteers, to carry out a project that goes beyond the sport; in an harsh land, with problems of prostitution and trafficking, including minors, the football is also a medium of emancipation and hope.
We walked with the girls in the new Arena, the stadium ready for the World Cup next coming in, where they hope one day to play too ...
The passion for football, however, is a fever even in the middle of the Amazon, as shown by a football women team of the Esporte Clube do Iranduba de Amazonia.
From birth in 2011, under the expert guidance of Olavo Dantas Ferreira that is something more than a coach, the team won three times the Campeonato Amazonense, and was representing the state in the female Copa do Brasil ranking among the top ten national teams. The resources are scarce, however, and despite the results the club complains the lack of support by the institutions, with the consequent risk of survival of the club. The trips from Manaus mean hours and often days to reach other places of this enormous state and for a club competing in the amateur category is not an easy life. The coach and the club are making great efforts as volunteers, to carry out a project that goes beyond the sport; in an harsh land, with problems of prostitution and trafficking, including minors, the football is also a medium of emancipation and hope.
We walked with the girls in the new Arena, the stadium ready for the World Cup next coming in, where they hope one day to play too ...
